The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
MISCELLANEOUS.


A LOADED coal train of sixty cars ran
away near Bradford, Pa, recently, wreck
ing all the cars and injuring two brake
men.
THE Governor of Ohio on the Goth ordered
the Toledo company of National Guards to
the scene of the riot at the Paulding
County reservoir. The information as out
lined to the Governor was that 200 masked
men had overpowered the guard at the res
ervoir and blew up the banks, saturated
the locks and timbers with oil and burned
them.
DISTRICT Assembly 126. Knights of Labor,
has had its charter suspended because the
members refused to strike when ordered to
do so by Committeeman Bailey. The
trouble arose over fight with District As
sembly 40.
TYPHo-PNEUaoNIA was reported epidemic
in Pocahontas County, Va, many persons
having died.
A SPECIAL train having on board the State
Board of Railroad Assessors and other
prominent officials jumped the track near
Horton, Kan, on the Goth. DR.. Allen, Judge
levers and Lieutenant Governor Riddle
were injured somewhat severely, while a
number of others were bruised.
FIRE the other evening destroyed the
Wabash round-house at Des Moines, Iowa.
containing thirteen locomotives. The loss
will scarcely fall below S100, 900. and may
exceed that sum.
FIVE miners were suffocated to death re-
Gently III the Tunnel colliery, near Ashland,
Pa. Four Of them left widows and chill
dren.
THE Americus Club gave banquet at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 27th, in honor of
the late General Grants sixty-fifth birth
day.
CAPTAIN MYERS read the riot act to
all the Winnebago settlers, and warned
them that if they returned after being
evicted they would be liable to three years.
Imprisonment and a fine of 81, 600
THE Printing and Bleaching Company's
mills, in the village of Brookdale, West
Chester County, N. Y, were burned the
other morning. Loss, S150,000. Four cylin-
der drying cans exploded, blowing down
the walls and creating panic in the neigh
borhood. No one was injured.
MEASLES have been having a marvellous
run at Madison, Wis, over 400 cases being
reported by the city health officers. No
great harm was felt, as the weather was
favorable for the encouragement of mild
form of the disease. Scarlet fever was also
prevalent.
DESPITE the vigilance of the police ST.
Petersburg was recently placarded with
notices threatening with death all of the
members of the Imperial family, the judges
and Government officials, if the conspira-
tors, now under arrest, are sentenced to
capital punishment.
THREE young sons Of George W. Hay
ward, prominent merchant of Solomon
Island, in the southern part of Maryland,
were returning from visit across Chesa-
peake bay, when their boat capsiZed and
Frederick and Guy were swept away in the
darkness. Bernard, the youngest boy, clung
to the mast until daylight, when he lost his
hold and was drowned.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has addressed a
letter to the Secretary of the Interior on
the sequestration of public lands by rail
roads.
THE duel between editors of the Epening
States and Picayunc, of New Orleans, did not
come off as expected.
JOHN DALTON, youth of twenty who
works in a printing Office in New York,
and lives in Brooklyn, jumped from
the Brooklyn bridge at a point near the
pier on the New York side recently. He
was picked up apparently unhurt by the
crew of passing lighter.
a DISPATCH from Grenada, Miss, saws:
''W. P. Fowler and Stivers, rector of the
Church, had difficulty in which
Stivers was probably mortally wounded.
The cause of the trouble was not ascer-
tanned. Stivers says Fowler's act was JUS
tifable.
CUSTOMS officers throughout Great
Britain and Ireland have received stringent
orders to search all vessels arriving from
America, China and the East, the Govern
ment having been warned that explosives
have been sent from San Francisco to ports
in the East to be transhipped to England.
WATSON, Medill & Co., -four, corn and
seed factors of London, have failed with
$50, 900 liabilities.
THE Illinois House of Representatives, by
a vote Of IS to 40, passed the bill pro
hlbiting base ball playing on Sunday.
Two hundred and fifty indictments
against eighty Bald Knobbers were found
by the grand jury at Ozark, Mo.
THE Duke of Portland's country seat in
Ayrshire, Schtland, has been destroyed by
fire
NEAR Bonham, Tex, recently, three small
children Of ). T. Hale were burned to death
The mother had gone some distance to OBJ
tain medicine for the eldest when the house
took fire with the above fatal results
THE pictures for the British Academy ex-
hibition this year are of only average abil-
lty, and there is marked absence of start
ling subjects.
THE graves Of Confederate soldiers were
generally decorated throughout the South
on the 26th.
MARY HoAR and Maud Mcdonald were
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Torch Lake railroad near Houghton, Mich,
coupling PIN breaking. Miss
Hoar had her head cut from her body and
Miss McDonald's legs were crushed SO
badly that amputation was necessary.